On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 11:00:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] > You're not supposed to do that. setuid() is a privileged call, so it's > supposed to be called by a privileged process only. Do not add these > permissions to a normal user account unless you exactly know what you're > doing security-wise.
No, indeed, one is not supposed to do that (permanently assign this privilege to a regular user account). Definitely. Absolutely ... I only intended to demonstrate the essence (gist?) of the subparagraph: user context switch => CreateProcessAsUser() Without the invocation of CreateProcessAsUser() there is no context switch. Regards, Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple